Podcast - Surprise: a big windfall for California schools; Rx for reviving civics education

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This year’s presidential election exposed a public largely ignorant of the basics of the democratic process. Erica Hodgin, co-author of a new report by UC Riverside and UCLA on the sad state of civics education in schools, suggests ways to rejuvenate it, including a new incentive, the State Seal of Civic Engagement.

Erica Hodgin’s interview about this work begins at 10:57.

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